Gripped by the past: Nostalgia and the 2010 labour party leadership contest

British Politics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 525-548

  Jobson, Richard ^a   Wickham Jones, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bristol   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

history; identity; Labour party; leadership election; nostalgia; social democracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650549187     PISSN: 1746918X     EISSN: 17469198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/bp.2010.25     Document Type: Article

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